A North Carolina woman, Jewel Shuping, shared her experience of being persuaded by a psychologist to pour drain cleaner into her eyes due to her belief in suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). Shuping revealed that as a child, she exhibited behaviors such as staring at the sun to impair her eyesight and learning braille, which she referred to as “blind-swimming”, to simulate living as a blind person.
She expressed the overwhelming urges she felt and how by the age of 21, the desire to be blind became relentless. In 2006, Shuping met a man in Chicago who claimed to be a psychologist. She recounted being isolated by him for two weeks and coerced into having drain cleaner dripped into her eyes using a syringe.
The damage caused by the incident took months to completely destroy her vision. Initially, Shuping had stated that the psychologist’s actions were consensual, but she later admitted on Reddit that she now questions the consent given, suggesting that her desire for blindness was fabricated and manipulated by the psychologist.
Shuping disclosed that the psychologist twisted her traumatic childhood experiences to convince her that she desired blindness. Following the incident, she underwent extensive trauma therapy and currently lives with complex PTSD and social anxiety. She emphasized that the ordeal still haunts her to this day.
